The Dickinson press., 1887-06-04
OUR NEW ENGLAND NE1GnBoRs.
What They r Doing and What They
EXDect TO do.
Irregular Correspondent to pEEss.]

NEW CITY, l)Ak..
May 20, lSS7.
l am reminded that it is approach
ing the end of another week and that
you are looking for your locals from
our town. Well we are here still,
considerably more than we we're and
every day finds us bearing out fresh
additions which will bind us to our
new home and make Us your perma-
nrnt %ncighhorS. Planting and break
ing are going on all around our town
for miles and by another week end
we shall have enough planted to carry
two hundred people through the next
winter,' providcd.o of course,we have an
average season. New buildings have
been finished since last wrote YOU, IL
new well has hen dug down nearly to
water. and new coal mines opened.
The building for our newspaper will
be finished Saturday night ready for
the outfit of type and press ordered in
Chicago. The name of our newspaper
is Il singulary happy one, THE Rainy
Butte Sentinel" From my window.
as..1 write, the Big Raincy's stand out
seven miles away in bold relief, wholly
unlike amy other buttes in this section
of Dakota, almost mountains in size
and shape, yet having none of the
barren washed out look of the smaller
butteS. From this distance the view
of them is charming to the eye wearied
with looking over Il vast eXpansc of
prairies in all other directions they
afford Il welcome relief; one can al
most imagine the Indian sentinel of
years gone by watching from their
broad tops for hostile camp fires or
the approach of countless herds of
buffalo. Now our ".Sentinel' Shall
from this self same height watch for
and hail the coloniStS from the rising
sun and wave the flag of peace to our
%neighloors all around hercahouts. 4
contract has been about closed for
quarrying stone from the banks of the
Cannon Ball OH our town site. for IL
bank building and church, both of
which will be soon in process of ron.
struction. Grass is very green and
thick here and III stock is %fattcning
fast tethered ont at nights all about
us, and speaking of stock leads me to
relate Il laughable incident which
nearly terminated in Il fatality this
week. One of our horses is called
"Puncher" from the occupation of
his last owner. Till he came her" he
never Smelt oats, had to rustic all last
winter, is scared to death ut the sight
of Il curry comb, and when tied in Il
stall persists in reversing his posi-
ton 10 that lie can see all that is go
ing on; in fact. don't seem to like civ
iliZatiOn worth II cent. One of our
the custom of this territory-iumpcd
onto Puncher's back to goa short dis
lance when away flew horse with kid.
in opposite direction for" about IL mile.
then back he came like one possessed
and kid holding on for dear life trying
to stop him, but it was no use, he
might as well have tried to stop Il
Dakota zephyr, his hair stood on end
like the teeth Of u rake, his hat was
blown into the prairie sod ten inches,
and on charged Puncher for IL steep
bluff on the river bank where IL leap
of thirty feet would have finished
both, here in the nick of time, the
horse all in fun stood Oh his head u
second and the kid continued on
ploughing up the prairie for rods
with his nose. The horse enjoyed it
much, so did we, the kid is busy sew
ing on buttons, growing a nose and
telling how he threw the horse. 1t
was a so as you please-that is as the
horse pleased. The owner of the horse
has raised his price 100 per cent. and
is not bothered with parties wanting
to borrow him.
Through the medium of your valua-
BILE columns l would like to call the
attention of the proper authorities to
the indiscriminate slaughter of Ante
lone between here and Dickinson, /
am told there is a fine in each such
case. Why is not the law enforced
and these animals protected from
speedy humiliation! Soon the last one
will have disappeared and the Ante
lope like the buffalo become IL myth.
On Saturday of this week we expect
another small party of colonists from
Boston, to arrive in Dickinson enroute
for New England City. AS there will
be in the number a fair sprinkling of
the fair sex, we would advise the
beaux of your place to keep an eye on
the train due that day from the east,
if favorably impressed with the new
Corners, to come down and see us
often.
J.. \. DODGE.
The Northwest Magazine car is
here.
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